The Old Apartment

*Yawn*

 

I'm sleepy today.  It's been a loooooong week and yesterday it all came to an end.  Well, sort of-I still have to unpack!  This weekend I did the final push and got everything packed up.  At around 9am yesterday morning, the movers came and took all of the boxes out in about 1 hour.  It's funny how 3 men can move things so quickly and yet it took me about 2 weeks to pack all the crap up!  The total move out took about 2 1/2 hours.  It would have been less but at the last minute the elevator broke, and they had to walk things down 5 flights of stairs.  I felt horrible.  I also felt weird just sitting there watching them move my stuff.  After they'd move things I'd run behind them and sweep and clean up a bit, but I was still pretty much just sitting there feeling weird.

 

Once we got to the new place, I knew that there were going to be some problems.  First, the front stairway has a sloped ceiling-like there is another stairway up to an attic.  This caused trouble with my box spring.  The guys lifted that over the balcony no problem and we moved on.  As the day went on, their projected tip grew bigger and bigger.  The hours grew and the work they had to do got harder.  The sofa was the tipping point-they had to hoist it up which in itself was a task...at one point this tiny little man was hold it mid-air while the other ran around and up into the apartment.  They then tried getting it through the door...they must have switched positions 5 or 6 times before they took the door off.  Even after that, it was hard to get it in there.  When they finally did, they were sweaty and tired and I felt horrible.  They each ended up with a hefty tip.

 

So everything is in.  My cable works but my phone and internet do not.  I think I know what the trouble is though, and when I get home tonight I'm going to try to fix it.  So far, I really like it there.  I've noticed that there are very little electrical outlets, which I did not check for, for some reason.  I'm going to ask the landlord if  he can pay to have one or two put in.  If he doesn't, I'll just suck it up and do it myself b/c the lack of plugs-especially in the kitchen-is going to kill me.

 

I slept well-perhaps because I was so tired, but I wasn't freaked out or anything, which is good.  The only snafu I had so far was the shower curtain fell down, but luckily it was right after I was done showering.  I'm not sure what I'll do about it, but hopefully it was just the way I put it up and not a major malfunction.

 

Tonight I have to drive over to my old place and paint the last wall, clean up and do laundry.  I'll start searching the web for a used washer so that I don't have to lug my stuff anymore, but for now, it's the laundromat for me!   (Well, the basement of my old place tonight). 

 

If I fix the interent tonight when I get home, I'll take some pictures.

 

PS. If this post doesn't make sense, I'm sorry...I'm really tired!!